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In Memory of...
Patricia Ruth Calkins White
Patricia R. “Pat” White, 89, of
Forest Grove, died Saturday morning,
December 12, 2015 at The Grove
Assisted Living Center in Forest Grove,
Oregon.
Services have been held.
Patricia Ruth White was born
September 15, 1926 in Gresham, Oregon,
the daughter of the late Joseph Edison
Calkins and Evalena (Hall) Calkins. At
the age of ten years old she moved to
western Washington County with her
family, having attended Mountaindale
Elementary School and later Laurelwood
Academy her freshman year. Pat then
attended Hillsboro Union High School,
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She was united in marriage to
Robert Warden White on August 17,
1945 in Vancouver, WA. They celebrated
their 70th wedding anniversary this past
August. Following their marriage they
resided in the communities of Hillsboro,
Cornelius, Vernonia, and Christmas
Valley. In May of 2013, they moved to
The Grove Assisted Living Center in
Forest Grove, to be near their family.
Pat was a true homemaker. She
loved growing, canning, and freezing
much of the food that she would need to
support her large family.
She was a long standing member
of the Seventh Day Adventist Church
and was active in the local church of
the communities they resided. Pat had
worked as the church secretary for the
congregations in Vernonia and Christmas
Valley.
Among her special interests
she enjoyed writing poetry, drawing,
painting and gardening.
Pat was preceded in death by
her parents, Joseph Calkins and Evalena
Perkins and her daughter, Patricia Irene
White, and her siblings, William Ezra,
Bonnie Nadine, JoAnne Ruth, and step
siblings Robert Calkins, Nellie Harrison,
and Patricia “Patty” Core.
Survivors include her husband,
Robert White, of Forest Grove, Oregon;
eight of her nine children and their
spouses, Eva Cochran, Vernonia,
Oregon; Robert E. “Bob” White,
Gresham, Oregon; Carlena White,
Cornelius, Oregon; Allen and Judy
White, Beaverton, Oregon; Roberta
“Bobbie” McMahon, Medford, Oregon;
Jennifer “Jenny” and Sonny Koo,
Portland, Oregon; Melissa “Missy” and
Karl Knapp, Sweet Home, Oregon;
Leioni Clark, Laguna Niguel, California
and Ella Hight, Winnemucca, Nevada
and her two brothers and a sister-in-
law, Ray Calkins, and John and Barbara
Calkins, Aurora, Oregon and one brother
and a sister-in-law Burt and Uiva,
Longview, WA.
Also surviving are twenty-
two grandchildren, thirty-six great-
grandchildren, eleven great-great-
grandchildren and numerous nieces and
nephews.
The family suggests that
remembrances may be contributions
to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Research, 1500 S.W. 1st Avenue, Suite
270, Portland, Oregon, 97201 in her
memory.
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